Student REU and teacher RET reports from past years are available at the following links.
Participant |
Project Title |
Mentor |
Summer 2009 |
| Mike Catanzaro |
Jet and Minijet Contributions to Transverse Momentum Correlations in
High Energy Collisions |
Prof. Sean Gavin |
| Mike Cosnowski |
Analysis of Charge Asymmetry in RS D0 Meson Decays |
Prof. Paul Karchin |
| Nick Davis |
Feasibility of the Detroit Area Schools Supernova Survey |
Prof. David Cinabro |
| Wissam Fawaz |
Type Ia Supernova Light Curve properties and Rates compared to
local Galaxy Colors |
Prof. David Cinabro |
| Nathan Joseph |
Direct Hadronic Reconstruction of Dą Mesons at STAR |
Prof. Rene Bellwied |
| Mike Lemanski |
Elaboration of a Question Bank For AST2010 |
Prof. Claude Pruneau |
| Jessica Oakes |
Not yet available |
Prof. Robert Harr |
| Emmett Windisch |
Counting Muons |
Prof. Robert Harr |
Summer 2007 |
| Emmett Windisch |
Heat Modeling in High Heat-Load X-Ray Optics |
Peter Revesz and Ivan Bazarov |
| Brandon Willard |
Functions Alternative to the Likelihood |
Prof. G. Bonvicini, Wayne State University |
| Christian Hammill |
Outgassing of Stainless Steel Vacuum Chambers and The Vacuum Pumping Performance Evaluation of a Titanium Sublimation Pump |
Dr. Yulin Li and Dr. Xianghong Liu, Cornell University |
| Jessica Hall |
Spectroscopy at Fermilab (SDSS) |
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| Erin Nagelkirk |
Cosmic Ray Detector |
Prof. Robert Harr, Wayne State University |
| Max Doppke (RET) |
Automated Sky Search |
Prof. David Cinabro, Wayne State University |
| Rebecca Reesman |
On the effect of galaxy properties on type Ia supernovae |
Prof. David Cinabro, Wayne State University |
Dorian Bohler |
Missing Report |
Dr. Aihong Tang, BNL |
| Wesley Leonard |
Missing Report |
Jose Riso and Dr. Petrov, Wayne State University |
| Adam Jones |
Dynamics of 2- and 3-body Do decays |
Prof. Alexey Petrov, Wayne State University |
| Rebecca Coles |
FRIC0 Stability Testing on VnUC and VdetCom Control Lines |
Dr. John Marriner , FNAL |
| Louis Ezenabo |
Manufacturing of optical fibers for the ALICE EMcal |
Jose Riso and Dr. Petrov, Wayne State University |
| Courtney Couvreur |
Missing Report |
Cornell University |
Summer 2006 |
| Andrea Kay Forget |
Muon Cooloing via Ionisation |
Don Hartill, Cornell University |
| Michael Lomucio |
Reconstruction of the Rho Meson in centralized Au+Au collisions at RHIC |
Claude Pruneau |
| Kristen Clark |
An Analysis of the Electron Triggering Capabilities of the ALICE Detector |
Claude Pruneau |
| Derek Demarco |
Analyzing Motion with Transverse Coupling in Circular Accelerators |
Mike Billing and Mike Forster, Cornell |
| Louis Ezanabo |
Report |
Jose Riso, Wayne State U. |
| M. Smith |
Understanding Conversions in CLEO-c |
W. Sun, Cornell |
| Randall Cates |
Exploration of Large Crystal and Single Crystal Niobium Material |
Rong-Li Geng, Cornell |
| Hui-Yiing Chang |
A “Physics 510” Experiment to Study Weak Interactions in Muon Decay |
Jim Alexander, Cornell |
| H.Ziola |
The Slone Digital Sky Survey, Summer REU |
D. Cinabro, Wayne State |
| J. Oberly |
X-RAY FLUORESCENCE (XRF) ALTERNATIVE SOURCE TO CORNELL HIGH ENERGY SYNCHROTRON SOURCE (CHESS) |
Ernie Fontes, CHESS, Cornell |
| R. Santavicca |
Capillary Optics Lab |
Ernie Fontes, CHESS, Cornell |
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Summer 2005 |
| Achint R. Sur |
Development for the STAR Database Interface |
Jerome Lauret, BNL |
| Brent Gillett |
Testing of the Broadband HOM Absorber |
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| Daniel Pastor |
Anti-Strangeness in Multi-Lambda Events |
Rene Bellwied, Wayne State |
| Eric Wisniewski |
Feasibility of Coherent Microwave Beamstrahlung Detection at CESR: Wakefield Effects |
Giovanni Bonvicini, Wayne State |
| Jessica Darland |
Characterization and Optimization of CESR-c Lattice Design |
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| Nipuna Rupasinghe |
Invisible Ion Clearing Electrodes |
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| Vishwajit Y. Vyas |
Bunch By Bunch Beam Instrumentation at CESR |
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Summer 2004 |
| Matt Adams |
Tracking Efficiency of CLEO II Detector |
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| Charles Udanoh |
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider |
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| Dennis Myles |
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider |
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| Ankit Sur |
Deposition of Non-Evaporable Getter Thin Films and Vacuum Pumping Performances |
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| Bijoyananda Adhikary |
Computational Studies of the electron injector for the ERL.. |
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| James Price |
RF Testing of A Single FPIX1 for BTeV |
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| Brandon Szeliga |
Search for Strangelets at RHIC |
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| Louis Ezenabo |
TPC Test Laboratory Computer Control |
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| Laurie Ramroth |
Bending Strain Analysis of Pixel Modules for BTeV |
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| Crystal Nassouri |
A Graphical User Interface for Job Submission and Control at RHIC/STAR using PERL/CGI |
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| Chanisha Martin |
Ground Motion Measurement |
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Summer 2003 |
| Federico Faina |
Test Stand for SRF Cavity Electronics |
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| Vivek Batra |
Study of Charge Azimuthal Correlations in GeV Au + Au collisions |
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| Alexander Shanku |
Precision Measurement of Charmed Meson Masses |
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| Adam J. Lincoln and Gurpreet S. Mavi |
The BTeV Pixel Detector |
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| Marie Helen Ndama |
Theoretical Study of Net Charge Fluctuations with the Hijing Model |
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| Larry Jackson |
The Star Experiment |
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| Victorio Pidlaoan |
STAR Reconstruction Software |
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| Hanna Abebe |
The Wayne State Plot |
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| Gerard Bailey |
Instrumentation of Wiggler Magnet Cryostats |
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| Galeklauthe Marang |
Luminosity Calculation from Known Beam Functions |
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| Jerome Karpiak |
Analysis of two particle correlations in AuAu collisions. |
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| Michael Barclay |
Report |
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Summer 2002 |
| John Rumble |
Kaon-short Production at A GeV |
Helen Caines, Yale (BNL) |
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| Ferlilia V. Roberson |
Study of Lamba Isospin Fluctuations in Central Au+Au collisions. No report submitted. |
Andrew Rose, WSU (BNL) |
| Richard Yagley (T) Sabouni Jalili-Kh N. (T) |
The STAR EMC calorimeter |
Jose Riso, C. Pruneau |
| Viveka Borum |
Comparing CESRc/NLC damping rings, including space chg effects |
Dave Rubin, Mark Palmer, Mike Forster - CESR |
| Terry Legette and Dijana Camaj |
CAVE simulation of life at subatomic scales |
Chris Jones (Cornell) - CLEO |
| Michael West |
Construction of the large angle beamstrahlung detector for CESR |
Giovani Bonvicini (Wayne State) - CLEO/CESR |
| Terry Legette, Dijana Camaj |
Putting "physics" in the CLEO event display |
Chris Jones (Cornell) - CLEO |
| Doina Balcacean(T) |
Si-si bonding for X-ray optics |
Jim Savino and Tom Krawczyk - CHESS |
| Michael Barclay (T) |
Graphics and Parallel Processing of Protein Diffract'n Data |
Richard Gillian - CHESS |
| George Galay |
Low Mass Heat Pipes for BTeV Pixels |
Dave Cinabro |
| Sarah LaPointe |
Report |
Dave Cinabro |
Summer 2001 |
| Nicholas Powell |
Upsilon analysis |
Galik (rsg@lns.cornell.edu) |
| Mark Hanna |
The Search For Strangeness Enhancement |
Gene Van Buren, BNL |
| Terrance Strother |
Baryon Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions |
Sean Gavin (gavin@physics.wayne.edu) |
| Jeremy M. Dick |
Global Accelerator Network |
Hartill (dlh@lns.cornell.edu) |
| Shalhout Shalhout |
Charm jet tagging |
Cinabro (cinabro@physics.wayne.edu) |
| Nadine Credi |
Study of Neutron Count and Tail Fluctuations |
Zhangbu Xu, BNL |
| Megha Sehdev |
Proton - Anti-Proton Correlation in Au-Au Collisions. |
Frank Laue, BNL |
| Christina Lopez |
Longitudinal Beam Motion |
Billing (mgb@mail.lns.cornell.edu) |
| Lakjinder Kang |
Time Independent Two Neutrino Oscillations |
Bonvicini (giovanni@physics.wayne.edu) |
| Wilbert Sherrod (RET) |
RHIC Complex |
Jim Thomas, BNL |
| Edith Carter |
High Resolution X-ray Fluorescence Scanning Microscopy |
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| J. Oosterhout |
Automated Crystal Mounting and Centering Project at CHESS |
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| Massoud Assadi (RET) |
The Star Experiment At RHIC |
Jim Thomas, BNL |
Summer 2000
|
| Ron Arscheene (T) |
Introduction to science for high school students |
G. Bonvicini, WSU |
| Larry Borum (T) |
CP violation in two body D decays |
D. Jaffe, UCSD |
| Chris Bush |
Rare semileptonic D(s) decays |
G. Bonvicini, WSU |
| Luis Cely |
Antiproton production in Au+Au at RHIC |
C. Pruneau, WSU |
| Sonya Gargies |
Test board for STAR SVT |
R. Bellwied, WSU |
| Brenda Garza |
Kinematic Fitting |
S. Pappas, A. Weinstein, Caltech
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| Kate Korbiak |
Observation of the hourglass effect |
D. Cinabro, WSU
|
| Gary Lalli (T) |
Introduction to science for high school students |
G. Bonvicini, WSU
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| Leronki Leonard |
Rare semileptonic D(s) decays |
G. Bonvicini, WSU
|
| David Mayfield |
Vertical injection at CESR |
D. Rice, Cornell |
| Bukola Olojo |
Angular distribution of lepton pairs in CLEO III |
D. Cinabro, WSU |
| Robert Santavicca (T) |
Introduction to science for high school students |
G. Bonvicini, WSU |
| Wilber Sherrod (T) |
Introduction to science for high school students |
G. Bonvicini, WSU |
| Eric Wisniewski (T) |
Introduction to science for high school students |
G. Bonvicini, WSU |
Summer 1999
|
| Maria Castro |
D_s Semileptonic Decays |
Giovanni Bonvicini, Wayne State |
| Nathan Detgen-Merrill |
Beamstrahlung Detector |
Giovanni Bonvicini, Wayne State |
| Tiana Fluker |
CLEO II Time-of-Flight |
Ed Thorndike, Rochester |
| Natalie Griffith |
CLEO III Online GUI |
Alan Weinstein, Caltech |
| Katherine Korbiak |
Dynamic Emittance |
David Cinabro, Wayne State |
| Kris Melnyk (T) |
An Internet HEP Experiment |
Saj Alam, Albany |
| Olushakin Olojo |
Geometrical Corrections for dE/dx |
Roy Briere, Harvard |
| Charles Payson (T) |
SCQ Thermal Properties |
Jim Welch, Cornell
|
| Kate Plass |
D_s Semileptonic Decays |
Giovanni Bonvicini, Wayne State
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| Daniela Silva |
CLEO III Tracking |
John Thaler, Illinois
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Summer 1998 |
| A. Bursott |
Magic Flange Tests |
Jeff Cherwinka, Cornell
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| A. Cipollone |
CLEO III RICH gas purity monitor |
Ron Poling, Minnesota
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| D. Isabel |
CLEO III Cathode Hit Calibration |
Alan Weinstein, Caltech
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| E. Luckwald |
Beamstrahlung at CESR |
Giovanni Bonvicini, Wayne State
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| M. Morgan |
CLEO II Charged Particle Tracking |
Ed Thorndike, Rochester
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| S. Pruitt |
Cloud Chamber |
Ian Shipsey, Purdue
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| R. Thomas |
CLEO III SVX Construction |
George Brandenburg, Harvard
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| M. Simpson |
Cloud Chamber |
Ritchie Patterson, Cornell
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